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informer

(One providing criminal information), noun accuser, auctor, complainant, criminal information supplier, impeacher, indicter, informant, information supplier, one who supplies criminal information to the police, police tipper, squealer, tipster, witness against
Associated concepts: corroboration, reliable informer

informer

(A person who provides information), noun adviser, an noun cer, annunciator, communicant, courier, crier, delator, divulger, envoy, harbinger, intelligencer, messenger, notifier, proclaimer, relater, reporter, source, spokesman, teller, tipper, tipster, warner

INFORMER. A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.
2. When the informer is entitled to the penalty or part of the penalty, upon the conviction of an offender, he is or is not a competent witness, accordingly as the statute creating the penalty has or has not made him so. 1 Phil. Ev. 97; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 107; 5 Mass. R. 57; 1 Dall. 68; 1 Saund. 262, c. Vide articles Prosecutor; Rewards.

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The conditions of the Friends informer "Many" and "All" did not differ: F(1,468)=u,66, p=0,418, their mean difference being less than 0,1 hours of social work, Therefore, the two panels of Figure 1 present the means of the two 2 x 2 designs (solid lines) and the two single Risk informers (broken lines) for the total group of subjects to report the results about information integration,

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The accused arrived at the venue shortly and the Iranian called the informer again to tell him to turn his car's lights on.

Farm worker accused of possessing 5.3kg heroin

Police and the Crown resisted a previous bid to force the opening of the files, which contain highly sensitive information on how informers are handled.

Police will open their secret files

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The Supreme Court of Canada has long held that an informer's

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According to police, Maoists murdered them after branding them as police informers and it was an act of revenge.

Andhra: Two tribals killed by Maoists

District superintendent of police Sunil Dutt denied the Maoist claim that Srinivas was working as a police informer. "He was a farmer and had nothing to do with the police," he said calling it a brutal act by the Maoist.

Maoists kill abducted TRS leader in Chhattisgarh

However, this task is given to the native informer who "plays a key role in making the inversion of fact by fantasy appear logical" (Dabashi, 2011, p.

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He said that under RA 2338, the finance secretary has the sole jurisdiction to approve or deny the claim for an informer's reward.

Tax informer files P33-billion estafa case vs Diokno

After constitution of the commission not only the informer employees would be given protection but also gifts.

PM makes another watchdog commission to check corruption

After the constitution of the commission, informers would be given protection as well as gifts.

PM approves new watchdog commission to check corruption

IT was a gripping start to BBC1's latest thriller Informer, something to fill the void for anyone who loved Bodyguard.